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0 points__jal6y ago0 comments

This is very common thinking - people seem to equate the first discussion of a concept with "discovery" with "the important stuff".

If that line of thought were consistent, it would credit Babbage, or maybe Turing, as the last computer scientist to do something useful.

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jascii6y ago

I would say there is a difference between development that significantly change the way we look at things and adapting known principals to changing demands.. Where exactly that boundary lays is, I admit, murky at best.

sdenton46y ago

And machine learning is still stuck in the sixties...

mateo4116y ago

It's stuck in the 1760s with the publication of Bayes Theorem.

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